Dream speech
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Dream speech is speech that occurs internally during a dream. The term was coined by Emil Kraepelin in his 1906 monograph Über Sprachstörungen im Traume. The text discussed various forms of dream spee
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Gravestone in Heidelberg with epitaph: Dein Name mag vergehen
Word salad
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A word salad is a "confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases", often used in psychiatry to describe a symptom of a neurological or mental disorder. The name schizophasia
Dream speech
…dream speech as a means of understanding language disturbances seen in schizophrenia, stating in 1920 that "dream speech in every detail corresponds to schizophrenic speech disorder". Kraepelin presented 286 examples of dream speech in his monograph, the majority of which are of his own. After 1906, he continued to collect samples…
Textile art by a person with schizophrenia, embroidering seemingly unconnected words onto fabric: a word salad.